Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

Like Artix, Chain would have failed in its current form no matter how smooth it was polished. It was very important that we failed fast so that we could focus on morphing it into something that works. You lose that with perfectionism.

So you'd better be a Steve Jobs.

I have reservations about that name.

Yes, I'm coining a new term - "pefectionism." Don't know what it means, I'll let the audience decide.

No, it's fine. The site's going to let you list famous people who you want to sign various body parts. It'll make for an interesting tag cloud.

Personally I used to be like this. I would never launch anything, because nothing I did was ever good enough for me. However, recently I learned my lesson. I launched hackrtrackr with only one feature, and without and going back and rethinking what I had done. The result an insanely simple website that has taken off very well. Also by launching with only one feature and minimal code it allowed me to quickly add the features I received requests for, because I didn't have to wade through a bunch of lines.